The Paul Revere House

Built about 1680, the Paul Revere House is the last remaining structure from seventeenth-century Boston. Patriot and silversmith Paul Revere owned it from 1770 to 1800, and he left this house for his famous Midnight Ride on April 18, 1775. After serving as a tenement and storefront in the nineteenth century, it was saved from demolition, restored, and opened as a museum in 1908. The Pierce/Hichborn House, built about 1711 and first owned by glazier Moses Pierce, typifies the Georgian style of architecture prevalent in eighteenth-century Boston. The Nathaniel Hichborn family, cousins of Paul Revere, owned that house from 1781 to 1864. After also being used as a tenement in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, it was saved in 1949. Both houses are Registered National Historic Landmarks and are owned and operated by the Paul Revere Memorial Association, a private non-profit educational institution.

Cambridge, Massachusetts · United States